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ATTACHMENT FOR HATS.

APPLICATION FILED Emil-0,1909.

Patented Aug. 15, 1911.

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GEORGE W. MERRITT, 0F AVALON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE W.MERRITT COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

ATTACHMENT FOR HATS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 20, 1909.

Patented Aug. 15, 1911.

Serial No. 479,114.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MERBITT, residing at Avalon, in the countyof Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, a citizen of the United States,have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements inAttachments for I-Iats, of which improvements the following is aspecifica tion.

The invention described herein relates to an improved means for treatingthe scalp for promotion of the growth of hair and is hereinafter morefully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, Figure1 is a sectional elevation of a hat having my improvement appliedthereto; Fig. 2 is a plan View showing the absorbent material attachedto the supporting strip; Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating amodification of the supporting strip; Figs. 4 and 5 are respectivelytransverse sections of the forms shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In the practice of my invention any absorbent material 1 such asblotting paper is secured to a strip 2 of flexible and preferablyresilient impervious material, as card board or thin metal, preferablyaluminum. This strip should be of such length that when its ends areinserted between the body of the hat and sweat-band 3 the middle portionof the strip will be held out of contact with the head, and preferablywill lie against the inner surface of the hat. The

absorbent material may be attached to the supporting strip in anysuitable manner as for example by gluing or pasting, as shown in Figs. 2and 4, in which case it is preferred that the absorbent material shouldnot extend to the lateral edges of the supporting strip in order thatthe hat may not be injured by the medicament carried by the absorbentmaterial.

In lieu of permanently attaching the absorbent material to thesupporting strip, the former may be made in the form of a strip somewhatnarrower than the supporting strip, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. The edges4: of the supporting strip are turned over onto the strip of theabsorbent material, so as to hold the latter in position, but permittingits longitudinal withdrawal from and insertion into the strip.

As the supporting strip is made of thin material and the absorbentmaterial is preferably so applied as not to extend under the sweat-band,the application of my improvement to hats will not render themmaterially smaller internally. The form of the strips and the manner ofsupporting them in the hats permit of the use of strips of any desiredwidth and of a length suflicient to extend over the entire surfacerequiring treatment.

I claim herein as my invention:

The combination with a hat provided with a sweat-band, of a thin stripof impervious material bent to conform approximately to the contour ofthe hat and held in position at itsopposite ends by the sweat-band, anda strip of medicated material secured to the impervious strip and ofsuch length that its opposite ends lie adjacent to but not in contactwith the sweat-band.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

GEO. W. MERRITT. Witnesses:

CHARLES BARNETT, EDWARD F. MOSER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner 01' Patents, Washington, D, G.

